One of the most beneficial things a body can do after a solid night’s sleep is to stretch, to kick-start the body into motion.

Few would argue with that prescription. However, according to one New Mexico lawmaker, you need to be careful what you call it. According to 8th District Rep. Alonzo Baldonado, a Republican, if the stretching takes on the appearance of some yoga motions, that puts the practitioners in danger of getting too close to Eastern religions.

The aphorism, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” has an interesting pedigree, variously credited to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a 12th century cleric, and to Virgil’s Aeneid written shortly before the time of Christ, and whose translation reads, “It’s easy to go to hell.”

Those notions certainly apply to the three men who are likely to be facing felony charges for toppling over a huge rock in Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. The unusual formations date back to the Jurassic era.

With the hard rock — Def Leppard’s “Gods of War,” to be specific — cranked up at top volume on a nearby sound system, longtime friends Arturo Crespin and Fidel Maldonado Jr. set their camaraderie aside.

Then they began punching each other.

It’s hardly unusual for reunions of these two to involve such violence. And this past Sunday, each of them welcomed the opportunity to slam his fists into the other and to be treated in kind.